PKI Contract Job Trends in Reading

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 85 69
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +20
Contract jobs citing PKI 10 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.47% 0.47% 1.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.22% 1.41% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 17
10th Percentile - - £583
25th Percentile £425 £603 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £605 £610
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% -0.82% +19.61%
75th Percentile £602 £608 £615
90th Percentile £604 - £624
Berkshire median daily rate £519 £605 £610
% change year-on-year -14.26% -0.82% +19.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £74.80 - -
25th Percentile £82.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £100.00 - -
90th Percentile £103.30 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £90.00 - -

All Generic Skills
Reading

PKI falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 237 354 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 34.85% 32.99% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 166 215
10th Percentile £339 £315 £205
25th Percentile £413 £409 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +11.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £663 £706 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 8
10th Percentile £55.15 £25.70 £60.54
25th Percentile £58.00 £35.75 £61.52
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -9.15% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.22 £65.55
90th Percentile £102.20 £71.76 £66.83
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £42.88 £61.65
% change year-on-year +35.26% -30.44% +39.31%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PKI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

PKI job vacancy trend in Reading

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PKI

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in Reading over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Reading

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PKI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PKI

PKI
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PKI in Reading over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PKI in Reading

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DHCP
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) SIEM
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (30.00%) Feasibility Study
4 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Process Management
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (30.00%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bash
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow